Pavilion On The Lake
When you walk into the main lobby of the Boulevard Club, you are ?immediately surrounded by its history. Dark wood. Trophies. Old photos. It?s everything that you would expect from a social and athletic club that?s more than a century old.
It?s difficult to imagine the expansion to this building delivered ?by an architect with more respect for its history. As Martin Baron, partner at Teeple Architects, walks me through the club, he speaks with reverence about the various phases of the building?s design. There?s the original clubhouse, a mid-century wing with an iconic zigzag roof, ?a timber-lined addition from the early 2000s by Ian MacDonald Architecture. And now, Teeple?s West Wing: the highly anticipated replacement of an old, barn-like, seasonal structure that housed badminton courts. The club?s history and architecture reads like a perfectly constructed story. Its traditional origins are still central to the plot, but walking into the West Wing feels like a fresh new chapter. ?Each phase is very much a reflection of its time,? says Baron. An aluminum-clad addition lends fresh energy to Toronto’s lakeside Boulevard Club. The curving facade wraps around ground floor locker rooms and lounges, along with upper floor sports courts. Photo by Scott Norsworthy
It?s also difficult to imagine designing for a more constrained site. Located along Lakeshore Boulevard, the new West Wing is tucked amongst tennis courts on the north and west sides, an existing building on the ea...
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